Ian Paisley Jnr (North Antrim, DUP) Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative) Sudan

South Sudan
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Ian Paisley Jnr (North Antrim, DUP)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent reports he has received on progress in establishing camps in Sudan to temporarily accommodate South Sudanese people until they can migrate to South Sudan.

• Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 7 September 2012, c470W)

Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)

I have been asked to reply

on behalf of the Department for International Development.

We have had no reports of the Sudanese Government establishing camps in Sudan to temporarily accommodate South Sudanese. A recent report following a comprehensive interagency assessment has recorded 40,000 South Sudanese currently living in temporary settlements in Khartoum. The majority of these people are waiting to return to South Sudan. The UK is supporting the talks in Addis Ababa and urging both governments to reach an agreement on citizenship rights.

Ian Paisley Jnr (North Antrim, DUP) South Sudan’s efforts to receive South Sudanese migrants from Sudan.

South Sudan
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Ian Paisley Jnr (North Antrim, DUP)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent reports he has received on South Sudan’s efforts to receive South Sudanese migrants from Sudan.

• Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 7 September 2012, c470W)

Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)

I have been asked to reply

on behalf of the Department for International Development.

The British embassy in Juba receives regular reporting from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). So far, in 2012 roughly 113,000 South Sudanese have returned to South Sudan. Recent efforts to support this return include a barge movement, organised by humanitarian agencies, for around 2,700 people from Upper Nile State (where most returnees arrive in South Sudan) to Juba.